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President Trump Clearly Understands the Cost of Illegal Immigration

Posted January 15, 2019, 6:51 am

Illegal immigration is costly to this nation, both in monetary and human terms.

The problem came to the fore again recently when an illegal alien with an arrest record­­ and extensive gang connections shot and killed a California police officer. This is but the latest in a string of such instances where illegal aliens have murdered, assaulted and committed other heinous felonies against innocent Americans. Americans are concerned. A recent Rasmussen poll showed that 68% of likely voters thought illegal immigration was a serious problem.

There are currently about 12 million illegal aliens in our country. This is the equivalent of the combined populations of Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonia and Dallas. About eight million illegals are part of our workforce. These are concentrated in California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

The cost to this nation of a porous border and illegal immigration is difficult to quantify but it is great. Some estimate the cost at $300 billion annually which is 9 times the Pennsylvania State Budget. Most estimates don’t consider the negative impact illegal labor has on depressing US wages.

Do you need proof house socialists are crazy?

Posted December 31, 2018, 9:46 am

One of the great resources of the United States is the ability of Drug Manufacturers to research, develop and bring to market miraculous lifesaving drugs. This is a long and tremendously expensive process, made longer and more expensive by voluminous federal regulation.

When a company spends hundreds of millions of dollars developing a drug, they deserve to be compensated for that effort by not only recouping development costs but also making a profit.

In America this right is protected to some degree by the grant of a patent which gives the company the exclusive right to market that product for some period of time before copycat generics may be marketed in competition. Currently, this period is 20 years from the time of invention. It can take eight or more years to go through all the testing and validation protocols so a company may only have 10 or so years to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars of development cost plus make a profit. The market may be very focused and small. Consequently, many highly effective miracle drugs are very expensive.

The Democrats see this as a horrible inequity that must be “corrected”. Their solution, as always, is a socialist response. House Bill H.R. 6505 titled Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act of 2018 introduced by Rep. Lloyd Doggett D-TX seeks to give another unelected government bureaucrat the power to strip the patent protection from such an invention and release it to other companies to produce. In this manner they seek to lower the price of drugs.

The criteria for stripping such protection are:

The cost of the drug would impose financial burdens on potential users

There is an unmet need for such a drug

The first criteria would probably cover almost everyone when some of these drugs can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year. It would certainly pertain to the poor who, often, are the ones who need such a drug the most. This creates an incentive for companies to not bring drugs to market for the very people they might help the most.

The second criteria eliminates the primary reason drugs are developed and marketed – an unmet need that will consume large quantities of the product.

These two criteria, taken together, would probably mean that almost every new drug would be liable to having its patent protection arbitrarily stripped by a federal official.

This proposal clearly demonstrates the absolute lack of understanding of market and economics that the emotionally driven child-like liberals have. With no way to make a profit on a development, why would a company invest the huge resources required into developing a new drug? Such a law would destroy the drug industry in the U.S. and deprive the very people they seek to help of potentially life saving medicine. More, it would mean that few, if any, new drugs would be developed in this country destroying an industry that contributes hundreds of billions of dollars to the economy.

This type of thinking and legislation is what we will see much more of from the new and radicalized Democrat House of Representatives.

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Posted November 12, 2018, 12:46 pm

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Posted October 24, 2018, 8:17 am

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